{"id":830627,"date":"2026-08-30T07:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T07:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/830627\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T07:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T07:44:11","slug":"brochart-ciezki-lead-mercury-dismantling-of-tempo-in-101-69-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/830627\/","title":{"rendered":"Brochart, Ciezki lead Mercury dismantling of Tempo in 101-69 win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Associated Press<\/p>\n

PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Noemie Brochart and Shay Ciezki<\/a> scored 15 points each to lead six Phoenix players in double digits and the Mercury<\/a> beat the Toronto Tempo<\/a> 101-69 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

It was Phoenix’s second-highest win margin this season following 99-66 season-opener win over Las Vegas. <\/p>\n

Sami Whitcomb<\/a> scored 14 points, reserves Marta Suarez<\/a> and Maddy Westbeld<\/a> scored 13 and 12 respectively, and Lexi Held<\/a> 11 for the Mercury (14-26) who ended their four-game losing streak.<\/p>\n

Alyssa Thomas<\/a> distributed 12 assists, the 11th game this season in which she’s dealt 10 or more assists.<\/p>\n

Isabelle Harrison<\/a> scored 16 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, Kiki Rice<\/a> scored 14 and Laura Juskaite<\/a> 10 for the Tempo, who were coming off a 93-73 loss to Las Vegas on Friday night.<\/p>\n

The Tempo (11-29) remain without leading scorer Marina Mabrey<\/a> (20.8 points per game) who is still recovering from an adductor injury and has missed the last six games.<\/p>\n

Phoenix built a 21-8 lead and never trailed. The Mercury led 27-17 after the first quarter and expanded the lead to 58-35 at the break. A 30-point third quarter made it 88-49 at the end of three.<\/p>\n

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See AP\u2019s full WNBA<\/a> coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Noemie Brochart and Shay Ciezki scored 15 points each to lead six Phoenix…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[15447,230413,9211,65485,280197,16803,42841,12816,219103,5551,16807,351780,99,85228,434,13016],"class_list":["post-830627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-alyssa-thomas","tag-event_recap","tag-isabelle-harrison","tag-kiki-rice","tag-laura-juskaite","tag-lexi-held","tag-maddy-westbeld","tag-marina-mabrey","tag-marta-suarez","tag-phoenix-mercury","tag-sami-whitcomb","tag-shay-ciezki","tag-sports","tag-toronto-tempo","tag-wnba","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}